Love
Elisa
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Dulce dona mihi tu mittis semper Elisa!
Et quicquid mittis Thura putare decet.
Sweet Gift! and always doth Elisa send
Sweet Gifts and full of fragrance to her Friend
Enough for Him to know they come from HER:
Whate'er she sends is Frankincense and Myrrh.
Semper Elisa! mihi tu suaveolentia donas:
Nam quicquid donas, te redolere puto.
Whate'er thou giv'st, it still is sweet to me,
For still I find it redolent of thee.
Codex Note
Translated by Coleridge from Claudian. 1833, 4
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Elisa.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/483/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Elisa.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/483/.
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